The impact of pollution abatement investments on production technology: new insights from frontier analysis

Jean-Pierre Huiban, Camilla Mastromarco (), Antonio Musolesi () and Michel Simioni
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Michel Simioni: INRA, UMR 1110 MOISA, Montpellier, France

No 716, SEEDS Working Papers from SEEDS, Sustainability Environmental Economics and Dynamics Studies

Abstract: This paper estimates the impact of pollution abatement investments on the production technology of firms by pursuing two new directions. First, we take advantage of recent econometric developments in productivity and eciency analysis and compare the results obtained with two complementary approaches: parametric stochastic frontier analysis and conditional nonparametric frontier analysis. Second, we focus not only on the average e ect but also on its heterogeneity across firms and over time and search for potential nonlinearities. We provide new results suggesting that the e ect of pollution abatement investments on the production process is heterogeneous both within firms and over time and also indicating that such an e ect is not monotonic. These results have relevant implications both for modeling and for the purposes of advice on environmentally friendly policy.

Keywords: Pollution abatement investments; technology; stochastic frontier analysis; conditional nonparametric frontier analysis; full and partial order frontiers; generalized product kernels; infinite order cross-validated local polynomial regression. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 30 pages
Date: 2016-07, Revised 2016-07
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Working Paper: The impact of pollution abatement investments on production technology: new insights from frontier analysis (2016)
Working Paper: The impact of pollution abatement investments on production technology: new insights from frontier analysis (2016)
Working Paper: The impact of pollution abatement investments on production technology: new insights from frontier analysis (2016)
Working Paper: The impact of pollution abatement investments on production technology: new insights from frontier analysis (2016)
Working Paper: The impact of pollution abatement investments on production technology: new insights from frontier analysis (2016)
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